Dvořák: String Sextet in A major, Op. 48, etc.

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Two of the finest string sextets ever written by Slavonic composers make an excellent coupling, particularly with such a starry line-up of musicians.
Sarah Chang's warmly individual artistry... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Release Date: 13th Aug 2002
Catalogue No: 5572432
Label: Warner Classics
Length: 67 minutes

Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence, Op. 70

Work length34:36

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Sarah Chang (violin), Bernhard Hartog (violin), Wolfram Christ (viola), Tanja Christ (viola), Georg Faust (cello), Olaf Maninger (cello)
Recorded: 2001-03-18
Recording Venue: 15-18 March 2001/Teldex, Berlin

I. Allegro con spirito

Track length10:49

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II. Adagio cantabile e con moto

Track length10:31

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III. Allegretto moderato

Track length6:14

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IV. Allegro vivace

Track length7:02

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Dvořák: Sextet, Op.48

Work length33:11

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Sarah Chang (violin), Bernhard Hartog (violin), Wolfram Christ (viola), Tanja Christ (viola), Georg Faust (cello), Olaf Maninger (cello)
Recorded: 2001-03-18
Recording Venue: 15-18 March 2001/Teldex, Berlin

I. Allegro moderato

Track length13:48

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II. Dumka (elegie) poco allegretto

Track length7:16

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III. Furiant presto

Track length4:14

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IV. Finale tema con variazioni

Track length7:53

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2010

Two of the finest string sextets ever written by Slavonic composers make an excellent coupling, particularly with such a starry line-up of musicians.
Sarah Chang's warmly individual artistry is superbly matched by players drawn from the Berlin Philharmonic, past and present. These are players who not only respond to each other's artistry, but do so with the most polished ensemble and a rare clarity of inner texture, not easy with a sextet.
Souvenir de Florence is given the most exuberantly joyful performance. Written just after he had left Florence, having completed his opera, the Queen of Spades, Tchaikovsky was prompted to compose one of his happiest works, one which for once gave him enormous pleasure. The opening movement's bouncy rhythms in compound time set the pattern, with the second subject hauntingly seductive in its winning relaxation, a magic moment here (track 1, 1'28").
The Adagio cantabile second movement is tenderly beautiful, with the central section sharply contrasted, while the folk-dance rhythms of the last two movements are sprung with sparkling lightness. There are now dozens of versions of this winning work in the catalogue, both for sextet and string orchestra, but none is more delectable than this.
Equally, the subtlety as well as the energy of Dvorák's Sextet is consistently brought out by Chang and her partners, with the players using a huge dynamic range down to the gentlest pianissimo.
Here, too, it just outshines the competition.

Dvořák: String Sextet in A major, Op. 48, etc.

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